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STATES PATENT )OFFICEa JASJMAGNNIS, OF LOCKPORT, NEIV YORK.

TAILORS MEASURE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 8,566, dated December 2, 1851.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-known that I, JAMES MAGINNIS, of Lockport, in the county of Niagara and St ate of New York, have invented a new and `Improved Instrument for Measuring `Men and Drafting Coats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a view of the instrument as set to the form of the body of a coat, the Fig. 2 shows the instrument as set to the back when the measure is taken, and Fig. 8, its application to the breast and shoulder.

(R) is a st-rap that extends from the socket bone of the neck to the waist parallel with the back seam.

is a strap that extends from the center of the back to the breast.

(B) is a strap that clasps into strap E at the back and is carried laround and hooked on to it in front, as represented kin the draw- 1n s.

((G) is a strap that extends from the center of the back of the waist to the front.

(N) is a strap that clasps into strap (G), at the hollow of the waist, and is carried around and hooked in front. Straps, N, and B, serve to hold the instrument on the body.

(C) is a square that slides on straps, R, and E from the center of the back to the armhole.

(A and S,) is a gage with two arms connected by a cross bar marked (L), in the drawings, two straps are attached to the top of the inner arm (these straps serve to measure the length of the shoulder) and the outer arm passes up and forms a semicircle over and around the top of the inner arm, this semicircle is slit through the center and forms a way for the shoulder straps to turn on, this gage slides on strap (E) from the front backward, it locatesthe front of the armhole and gives the diameter of the same the pitch of the shoulder and width of breast.

(L) is a strap that is attached to the cross bar of the gage it turns on a pivot and serves to measure the width of the breast also the height of the same.

(O) is a strap that extends from the pivot (A) on top of the inner arm of the gage,

Aof the lower point of the shoulder.

(K) is a strap that measures the length of the breast, from strap (I), the distance vthat a coat is carried in at the waist is dctermined.

The nature of my invention consists in its capability of contraction or expansion so as to give a complete graduation of sizes from the smallest boy to the largest man.

.Itcan be set to any sized coat without taking the measure hence its great utility in cutting ready made clothing. Again my instrument is so arranged that, when it is properly adjusted or set to the body, as illustrated by Figs. 2 and 3 in the drawings, by unhooking it in front it springs out straight becomes a pattern and conveys the shape, as well as the size, of the individual to the cloth, (see Fig. l in drawings). Further my instrument works on the back by sliding from the center toward the armhole and on the breast from the front backward toward t-he armhole sothat it gages the shoulder and gives the exact size and locality of the armhole.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to de scribe its construction and operation. The instrument is made of brass orl any other suitable metal, rolled down quite thin, it is then cut into the form of the various parts composing the instrument, designated by the letters R, E, B, G, N, C, A, S, L, O, D, P, K, I; the straps composing the instrument are slit through the center the same as illust-rated in the drawings, and numbered in inches and quarters the same as a common rule. The straps cross each other at right angles and screws with flat heads are put through these slits the heads of the screws on the underside and nuts on the top so that, when the instrument is set by turning these screws it is made fast and retains its form until applied to the cloth.

What I claim as my invent-ion and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The gage designated by the letters, A and S, in the drawings. This gage has two arms slit through the center from the cross bar down, as illustrated by Fig. 1, in the drawings, the front arm extends up and forms a semicirole over and around the top of the inner arm, thls semiclrcle 1s slit `through the center and forms a kWay for the tWo shoulder straps which are attached by a pivot to the top of the inner arm to turn on, With screws to set them to the de? sired place, the semieircle is designated by the letter D, in the drawings; this gage moves horizontally on strap, E, from the front backward or vice versa until it strikes the front of the armhole and locates vthe same, and is set by screws to the desired place, again this gage can be drawn perpendicularly so as to increase the length of the, shoulder, for a Very full breasted man 15 or contracted so as to lt a hollew breasted man..Y

- l' JAMES MAGINNIS Witnesses: Y

MAISENA BALLARD,

WESLEY BRIDGMAR. 

